Mass Communicating

Home | Contact Us | Manship School of Mass Communication | Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs

Mass Communicating:

The Forum on Media Diversity

About The Forum ׀ Annotated Bibliography ׀ News and Events ׀ Resources ׀ Louisiana Ethnic Media

RESOURCES

ARTICLES-REPORTS ׀ ׀ BOOKS ON DIVERSITY ׀ ׀ DIVERSITY SYLLABI

ARTICLES/REPORTS

"Campaigning for Better Coverage of Race in the Presidential Election." Click here to read the article written by Keith Woods

"Diverse newsroom contributes to public trust of press: Inside the First Amendment." Click here to read the report.

Black journalists see little progress in adding reporters, editors of color

". . . because of layoffs and hiring freezes, the percentage of journalists of color in daily newsrooms actually grew by a tiny margin, to 13.52% from 13.43% of all journalists. Blacks make up the largest number and percentage of journalists of color with 2,790 or 5.3 percent of the workforce, according to the survey."

Click here to read the report

New Media Women Entrepreneurs

The McCormick Tribune Foundation launched the New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative to address issues of opportunity, innovation, recruitment and retention of women in journalism. The organization will honor a New Media Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in an awards program, research issues women's consumption and creation of news and produce a day-long Women Entrepreneurs Summit.

New Media Women Entrepreneurs is seeking to fund three women-led projects. Three winners will receive $10,000 to fund their ideas and will have to blog about the process over the year. For more information,
see http://www.newmediawomen.org/

NCA's new journal

The National Communication Association has launched a new journal dedicated to "research that cuts across academic boundaries to focus on international, intercultural and indigenous communication issues."
The first issue of Journal of International and Intercultural Communication was to be made available in February. For more information, see
http://www.natcom.org/nca/Template2.asp?bid=9008

Video excerpts from a full discussion of diversity issues by some of the nation's leading professionals and academics, presented at the 2006
AEJMC annual meeting are now available online. Panelists included:

Cristina Azocar, San Francisco State University

Barbara Raab, NBC Nightly News;
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association

Felix Gutierrez, University of Southern California

Sandy Close, Pacific News Service; New American Media

Arlene Morgan, Columbia University

Dori J. Maynard, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education

Sally Lehrman, author of News in a New America (moderator)

The program was co-sponsored by the Manship School of Mass Communication, Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Knight Foundation.

*The News Watch Diversity style guide*

Click here to read the style guide. (Source: CIIJ)

BOOKS ON DIVERSITY

Making a Real Difference with Diversity provides readers with "a step-by-step guide for implementing, evaluating, and sustaining comprehensive diversity work on campus. . . . the monograph offers a set of promising practices and selected quantitative and qualitative findings pertaining to efforts to enhance college access and success for underrepresented students, increase the presence of underrepresented minority faculty, ..."
Click here to read more
about this book

Book picture The Authentic Voice – The estReporting on Race and Ethnicity,edited by Arlene
Notoro Morgan, Alice Irene Pifer and Keith Woods. Compelling accounts of award-winning journalism that explore the richness of our cultures, and the skills and sensitivities required to cover diversity in contemporary news operations. The book has an accompanying DVD and is recommended for classrooms and newsrooms. The Manship School is pleased to have been involved with this project.

News in a New America by Sally Lehrman addresses the diversity of American news coverage and newsrooms. Lehrman is an award-winning medical and science policy writer and national diversity chair for the Society of Professional Journalists. Lehrman conducted extensive interviews in newsrooms across the country to address issues such as identification of unconscious stereotypes and reframing diversity issues. The full press release can be accessed here. The book can be viewed online here. Courtesy of the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation.

DIVERSITY-RELATED INSTITUTIONS/ASSOCIATIONS